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  Wednesday, November 29, 2023   INTRODUCING 1 CORINTHIANS, CHAPTER 3   Chapter 3 continues along the same vein in Paul's teaching that only spiritual people can understand the wisdom of God. Paul cannot fully call the Corinthian Christians spiritual people, though, because they continue to live according to the flesh, as if they were still infants trapped in an immature condition. Evidence includes the divisions among them. Paul insists that he and Apollos are both servants of the same master and that the Corinthians should follow God, not them.  Paul also expounds on the idea that believers ought to set Christ as their example, rather than being defined in terms of their earthly leaders such as the Pastors, Priests, or Bishops of today.  (https:// www.bibleref.com/1-Corinthians/3/1-Corinthians-chapter-3.html The Church & Its Leaders, Part 1, Verses 1-8, MAMA Brothers and sisters, I could not address you as people who live by the Spirit but as people who are still world

  Friday, November 10, 2023   INTRODUCING 1 CORINTHIANS, CHAPTER 2   Paul reminds the Corinthians that he did not make an impressive display of his own speaking skills or knowledge when he first came to them. He wanted their faith to be in God's power, not human wisdom. God's ultimate wisdom can only be understood spiritually, revealed to human beings through God's Spirit. Those without God's Spirit cannot understand spiritual things. As a result, they reject the idea of Christ crucified for human sin as foolish. Through the Spirit, spiritual people have the mind of Christ. (https://www.bibleref.com/Romans/2/Romans-chapter-2.html) Verses 1-5, JEANNIE 1 And so it was with me, brothers and sisters. When I came to you, I did not come with eloquence or human wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God. [ a ]   2  For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.   3  I came to you in weakness with great fear and trembling